Cindy Sherman (*1954) is a pivotal figure in the history of appropriation art and one of the world’s best-known contemporary artists. Since the late 1970s, she has been photographing herself in roles inspired by mass-media stereotypes, but also real people and art-historical imagery. Her unique quasi-theatrical approach reveals the degree to which these stereotypes are entrenched in the cultural imagination. Sherman’s influential, complex oeuvre draws upon cinema, realism and the grotesque, and it is embedded in a number of postmodern and feminist theories. The New York-based artist has been associated with the gallery since 1987.

FROM CINDY SHERMAN TO FRANCESCO VEZZOLI
Group Exhibition
Palazzo Reale, Milan
Through May 4, 2025
FROM CINDY SHERMAN TO FRANCESCO VEZZOLI will be presented as an international premiere at Palazzo Reale in Milan, the exhibition brings into dialogue more than 140 works and 80 major contemporary artists from around the world.
From Cindy Sherman to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, from Nan Goldin to Nicole Eisenman, from Kiki Smith to Marc Quinn, from Lisetta Carmi to Francesco Vezzoli; all artists featured in the unprecedented and prestigious contemporary section of the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection who will be linked and connected by a dialogue on the most important social issues such as the relationship with the body, the ever-changing identity, multiculturalism and the complex interactions between East and West. It is an experience that crosses temporal and spatial boundaries, proposing a dialogue between visions that are geographically distant but converging on sensitive and inescapable contemporary issues.
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